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News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
Andrew Bolt's gloss, in fact, turns out to be 1.65% national rating on any single night over 6 states. But let's face it that's O.13% of the whole population of 24,000,000. That's rocketing, isn't it? Waleed Aly has an audience x 25 times larger and the ABC nearly X 19. Now, this is a Bolt record but it's not Aly's or the ABC's. The production costs of The Bolt Report are so high he can't make a profit, something Bolt doesn't tell you. That as a loss we actually subsidize the twat. ( ODT)
Broadcaster puts the gloss on Andrew Bolt’s audience. Plus, Media Watch has fun with the gossip mags
There was more than one murder in Melbourne last night and it wasn't Sudanese. When Sudanese crime represents 1% of crime in Melbourne why is it Andrew Bolt plays alarmist? He's done it to the Afghans, Sudanese, Somali's and Lebanese but never really bothers to focus on the crimes 71% of which are committed by White Australians and Christians, The fact that Crime has dropped 9% in Victoria is of no interest to Bolt either. He and Dutton only have eyes for Muslims and black Africans. The blacks only use to him is playing Black Pete at his Dutch Xmas and even then he has no need for Africans just shoe polish. One could wish he winds up in a hospital or an old age home and he'd be surrounded by people he hates caring for him.
Bolt claims to be a Patriotic Australian but does nothing to show it. He complains about all our institutions and tells us his retirement dream is a barge in Dutch Europe not so the refugees who come here and want to stay. Thankful for the life they escaped and whose children have a chance to gain university degrees. These are people who are more educated than Andrew Bolt and a country mile more tolerant. But Bolt never talks about that does he."They" are just stereotypes to him denigrate and negative images to promote. One can simply apply Bolt stats to him he has the highest % of negative reporting on Africans and Muslims, 'off the small base' of Murdoch media. A media for example that had 2850 negative and Islamophobic articles last year. The same would be found about his % of comments against Africans and Indigenous Australians.
Stadium bosses won't rule out segregating fans after yet another ugly AFL fan incident.
What is it that Andrew Bolt doesn't understand about the word ANOTHER? and
Cyclist clotheslined by hose strung up across street breaks a collarbone, fractures ribs.
Do we really need to go on but just in case we have a favourite MP an ex-Cop who Bolt, therefore, claims can't be trusted and in this case is right.
Here we are, witnesses, to the greatest liar in the Australian parliament. He's an ex-Cop and lives in a state that's history of crime and policing has remained stagnant when Victoria's has dropped 9%.
The Crime Statistics Agency figures revealed the recorded offence
rate for burglary and breaking and entering was down 15 per cent from
53,452 to 45,147cases, while theft dropped 12.9 per cent from 189,098 to
164,642 cases. Not in QLD Dutton. Not in QLD.
"Mr Dutton linked the death to what he claimed were wider problems with crime in Victoria.
"This is a tragic and needless loss of a young life," he said in a statement to Fairfax Media.
"There is a major law and order problem in Victoria and more people are going to be hurt until the rule of law is enforced by the Victorian Government. "We don’t have these problems with Sudanese gangs in NSW or Queensland."
Police just another Institution Bolt has no respect for. Despite the fact that crime has dropped 9% in Victoria and they are the first people Bolt yells help for. The police export their services as we do Foreign Aid, Education etc. However, Bolt expects them to offer their services free to any import who comes to this country to do shows take cash and run without paying taxes or declaring what it is they are really here to do. Milo did a runner. Mind you Bolt promotes these economic leeches and. If A&B are next to each other and A comes before B in space and time and there is a necessary connection between the two logic dictates A CAUSES B. However Bolt logic tries to say B CAUSED A That the protestors caused Lauren Southern to put on a show to provoke. It's why Bolt didn't get past the first year at university. The Police did not "Bill the wrong event" they charged the importer and earned the country export dollars instead of what normally complains about wasting our hard fought for dollars.
Bolt would love it to be about shaky leadership but the leadership polls say otherwise. But it's about shaky parties one divided the LNP and one united the ALP. The Abbotts, Kellys, Abetzs, Andrews, and all those others like the Duttons have ensured that along with their camp followers the IPA and Murdoch Media banging their drums.
EMMAR HUSAR AND HER 20 ANGRY STAFF
A fighter for social justice everywhere except perhaps at her office: "An internal ALP investigation is weighing allegations against federal MP Emma Husar... [She is] facing allegations from as many as 20 former staffers who claim they were bullied, verbally abused and in some cases treated like slaves." One allegedly worked as her domestic help.
"Apologies of this "if-then" kind just don't work for me.Bolt
This is just one more case where I am tempted to believe that many Leftists who rail at inequality and oppression are driven merely by envy. They just want their turn at the top. Bolt
Gandhi and Mandela were certainly jailed and Bolt would have applauded if they were here. His Gandhi comes in the form of the persecuted Lauren Southern his Joan of Arc.
"Talking now not of Husar, but some MPs of former NSW Government: have you seen, for instance, how many Labor MPs get jailed for corruption?"Bolt
No names offered up by Bolt are there Ian McDonald Eddy Obeid and Craig Thompson come to mind and I'm not a professional media hound either. With this lack of memory who would bother employing Andrew Bolt.
Have you noted how many Leftists overseas turned tyrants once they won the power they railed against?" Bolt
Let's see the 10+ Democratic Socialist countries in the EU certainly don't have tyrannical leaders. Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Netherlands et al So no it's not that obvious. What is obvious is just how easy it is yell out sound bytes without naming anyone because the Liberal Party seems to harbour corrupt and want to protect their own instead of jailing them.
However, it's not that clear in Hungary Poland and the Czech Republic
When news broke today that Michael Cohen, long-time fixer and attorney for Donald Trump, had a secret recording of a discussion about hush money to a Playboy model Trump had had an affair with, Fox’s Outnumbered show went right to work dismissing the news as unimportant and attacking Cohen.
2m Are Western Civilization Cultural Crusaders students of history interested in analysing the truth or flag waving megalomaniacs whose polished jackboot odour is unmistakenly present when people like Andrew Bolt and Tony Abbott are present? Abbott like Dr Strangelove couldn't help revealing himself and the true intent of the Ramsay Centre in his article in Quadrant. Sorry, it wasn't even a joke because made it crystal clear the purpose of it's offer to the ANU and John Howard the Foundation's president backed him. The degree course proposed not just the specialized study of Western Civilization which by the way is included in many other courses on campus but one with a single-minded focus to promote it as an absolute above all others as once was the notion of the Aryan Civilization in Hitler's Germany. In essence the belief that it's the God-given best that's ever been available to date. A crusaders haven within the ANU Furthermore, the values and structure of the course offered to be in full control of the Ramsay Foundation functionaries and not the University in which it's been accepted. Their intent is merely to usurp the University's reputation and help it mask its activities within it. Well the ANU simply walked away from that and now they are looking for alternative hosts. Abbott the wrecker and blowhard simply blew it with his article in Quadrant and Howard acknowledged that reality. Abbott tried to do the same when PM. He offered $4 million dollars to any Institution with a reputation to create independent space for The Copenhagen Consensus Centre headed by Dr Bjorn Lomborg. Its sole purpose was not to study global warming but to deny it. Abbott simply failed to find a tertiary institute so easily corrupted that it was prepared to give up academic freedoms. The lies promoting Lomborg went as far as News Corp's Australian which declared he was a visiting professor from the Copenhagen Business School all of which was denied by Danish Government which had cut ties with him. Lomborg's connections had been well broken with Denmark years before but not as far as his CV it seemed. Abbott and Bolt were both promoting his credentials. In fact, Lomborg was funded by the Fossil Fuel Industries like the Koch Bros in the US but even they had stopped paying him and he was up for sale to any bidder with Abbott the mug buyer. Andrew Bolt was a very active promoter of Lomborg's false CV as he is of his own if you look at his profile above. It's as fictitious with an obvious False Fact as false as the nutty Professor Lomborg who couldn't even get a job as a tutor on any Australian campus. If you Google him today it's hard to find what it is Lomborg is doing 2018 but his credits promoted by Murdoch's Australian still remain like artifacts of a failed Civilisation.
Pick the Fake Fact
He wasn't educated at Adelaide University. He may have started, tried but never finished. He either failed the first year or dropped out the real facts remain hidden and never clearly revealed. However, Bolt continues to maintain he was educated at the University which I would suggest the University denies and any official CV check would reject. This is representative of Bolt's integrity and his acceptance of fraudulent representation.
WRONG, MICHELLE. CAN WE DISCUSS YOUR ABC?
ABC boss Michelle Guthrie is talking absolute bull: "I wouldn’t agree with you when you say that I hide from the media,” Ms Guthrie told [Jon] Faine, who replied he had difficulty in interviewing her on his show." In fact, Guthrie has also rejected every single one of my many requests for an interview. Then there came more bull...
Rejecting Bolt is like rejecting an interview in an empty room it's not a challenge it's a fact an exercise in futility. It's why she went to the Press Club and not the Sky Club where Bolt claims he has a huge following off a small base. Whereas the recent Essential Poll revealed the ABC had the support of 75% of Australians support that actually crossed political party lines something that Bolt can't say he has. The Bolt Report loses money and is the equivalent of a private school classroom media studies exercise.
"In fact, my radio show with Steve Price thrashes the ABC in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, but does that make me less biased than the ABC?" Bolt
Really we went through this once before with Miranda Devine Steve Prices show isn't and never was Andrew Bolt's Show, Andrew Bolt wasn't Educated at Adelaide University as he claims above. he has been judged in court to be loose with his facts and yes he proves it again here if he suggests he has a greater audience on "his show" Nights with Steve Price. Can anybody see Andrew Bolt's name in that title?
EXPLOSION IN LONDON
No idea yet of the exact cause or any motive: "Several people have been injured after a “minor explosion” at Southgate Tube station in north London... Scotland Yard said it was investigating the cause of the explosion, which followed reports of a suspicious package at the station."
1h
The only truth Bolt offers here is "No Idea " coupled with hopeful innuendo. Jimmy Olsen couldn't have done better. There was a suspicious explosion in Syria as well that went unreported. Something it was dropped by a plane.
A “minor explosion,” likely caused by a battery short circuit, triggered an evacuation at London’s Southgate tube station on Tuesday evening, police said, adding that a number of people received minor injuries.
N.B Bolt would have received this information but fails to mention it.Why do you think that might be?
1h Bolt is a failure when it comes to stats and one when it comes to selective bias 4 attacks in Australia purporting to be terrorist defined by who then when conspiracies couldn't be found the government looking to create fear picked up a new term "Lone Wolf" terrorism. Basically like Nazis once hunted Jews to blame for all evil our authorities along with media scum like Andrew Bolt looked for anything Muslim to blame and create terror with. They wanted a blanket thrown over an entire religion for the sake of politics and it began with Scott Morrison after the Cronulla riots in 2005 and it has never stopped. As for the stats Trump tried to say crime in Germany was up just as Bolt is but they are both wrong in Germany is the lowest it's been in 30 years Mr Bolt and crime by Foreigners down by 23% What did Donald Trump claim? In an early morning (US time) tweet on Monday, the president said: “The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. “Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture! 1)What do the crime figures say? 2)The latest official crime figures we have from Germany show that 5.76 million crimes were reported in 2017. As a percentage of the population, this means crime is now at its lowest level for 30 years. 3)What about crime by foreigners? Crime by foreigners specifically is also down significantly – and even more sharply. The figure of crimes by non-German nationals fell by 23 per cent since last year, from 950,000 to just over 700,000. via Why Donald Trump is wrong about Germany’s crime rate | The Independent
MORE MUSLIMS IN GERMANY, MORE ATTACKS ON JEWS
More Muslim immigrants, more danger for Jews: "A Syrian migrant will face court in Berlin on Tuesday after he was caught whipping two Jewish men who were wearing traditional kippah skullcaps... The victim, an Arab Israeli, caught the ... assault in a video showing the attacker whipping him with a belt while shouting “Yehudi!” — Arabic for 'Jew.'"
You can guarantee this link is totally factless given it's sourced through Breitbart the most right-wing online media reference Bolt uses for his evidence. More danger for "jews" Wrong the victim was 1) and Arab Israeli, not just a Jew. Jews are whipping Jews today Israel is even imprisoning them for their opinions. 2) Countless numbers of Jews would like to see Israeli's whipped and because of that want Israel is whipping them. Bolt Israel just slaughtered 120 Palestinians and shot some 6000 thousand like fish in a barrel with dum-dum bullets and you think that action has no consequence, that this is all you offer up as crime? Israel is currently trying to make it illegal to video, photograph or broadcast any of their Institutional carnage committed by the IDF and Police. Sharee Markson Bolt's friend a Jew and Murdoch journalist was almost jailed for being a Jew? No a reporter in the Golan Heights for witnessing Israel support terrorists. Facts are meaningless to Andrew Bolt, aren't they?‘You never told me’: Confronting American Jewish myths about Israel | +972 Magazine
44m The only thing of relevance offered up in Bolt's who said what and when post is the Rasmussen Poll, the Breitbart of pollsters in America where anybody can call themselves an expert. It's an indictment on Bolt when he goes to Breitbart for "facts" and Rassmussen for what he calls "polling evidence". It's simply a reflection of his idiocy and untrustworthiness and what he thinks of his fans and the extent of what they will believe. Combined they are dumb and dumber. It's proof of why the ABC is so invaluable.
Obviously, Andrew Bolt hates our political system and the media that gives rise to the confusion only Murdoch Media can fix. In Bolt's mind, the IPA should become Australia's single Political Party and Government he trusts them with his son.
RATINGS NATIONAL FIGURES where it really counts and Andrew Bolt stands alone and isn't carried: Andrew Bolt rates less than 35,000
Waleed Aly 575,000 (x20) and Q&A 385,000 (x13) Andrew Bolt Bolt is only a legend in his own dinner time. Sky's biggest rater Paul Murray is only 56,000
1) Immigration has prevented 720,000 Australians getting jobs or are those 720,000 new migrants. That's Andrew Bolt's, Tony Abbott's and Peter Dutton's con. Less than 10% of Migrants are assisted or refugees. 90% are younger than the average Australian and therefore have longer working and taxpaying lives. They are better educated with higher skills than the average Australian Andrew Bolt tends to claim the opposite is the fact. Furthermore, they are more likely than Australians to set up new businesses and yes create jobs for more people. None of this is mentioned by Bolt when he says migrants are taking jobs. But then he doesn't want us to know this because it doesn't fit the short-term political arguments he wants to sell. As far as Bolt is concerned migrants are the new rats we've let onboard SS Australia. Limited expert data is supplied by Bolt to actually counter the advice supplied by Treasury and other experts. No doubt Bolt will like climate write a book on Immigration to declare himself Australia's foremost expert. Bolt claims he's entitled to this free-speech unlike the more qualified. All Bolt is equipped with is a desk a suit and a microphone to preach some very un-checked opinions at the behest of News Corp in order to boost Tony Abbott's wisdom and leadership qualities. Who it might be added when he was PM Abbott neither supported a reduction of 80,000 in the Immigration numbers nor false and racist figures such as 400 White South African Farmers were murdered in 2017. The man's a desperate politician grasping any ideas that might keep his personal career afloat.
2) Talking about Tony Abbott and reversal of ideas when the scandal of the fraudulent financial advice of banks arose in 2014 what did Abbott do? He didn't demand sackings and better self-management. He cut ASIC funds by $120 mill and ensured the sacking of 200 staff against the protests of the CEO of the regulator at the time. When NSW Liberal MPs were caught taking illegal donations from developers Abbott said it was the fault of the laws. Abbott was an advocate for deregulation and denied any systemic criminal activity. and today he 's blaming ASIC Tonight John Roskam of the IPA again applauded Abbott stripping ASIC's teeth Roskam blames their poor performance and not the bank's governance. He is also concerned about the closer regulation of bank activity. As history has shown the IPA is simply called these criminal events exceptional just the actions of some bad eggs that ASIC didn't police. Funny it was a totally different story when the Royal Commission into unions shone a light on Craig Thompson's misuse of $13,000 worth of petty cash that then was systemic union abuse of funds. Exceptionalism is not even a new con but a very very old one. Abbott cut funding to the ATO resulting in the loss of 3.500 of highly qualified staff many of whom were to be gobbled up by the Tax avoidance industry itself. He gave companies an indirect tax break. The IPA same again has tried to sell us the spin that only a few bad eggs exist when avoiding tax yet a whole industry has grown specialising in minimisation and avoidance. So companies who pay no tax do deserve company tax cuts today. The fault really lies with the ATO. If you let foxes into the chicken coop they will behave. UPDATE and an aside Q&A Andrew Bolt wasn't named but News Corp was but the underlying subtext was directed at Andrew Bolt and his overuse of position and power when delivering a miserly and bullying attack on Duncan Storar because of his past and his class when asking a question on Q&A. It was a scene from Dicken's Oliver Twist. There wasn't a member of the panel last night that applauded what Andrew Bolt but none named him why? What he did was regarded as totally un-Australian. Let's remind ourselves that Bolt has done it to Zacky Mullah, Adam Goodes, Yassmin and countless others and claimed it as his right to free hate-speech. No Doubt we will see him defending that right today and claim he's the victim.
9m Bolt's admissions "I'm not convinced" in 2017 has become "wrong" in 2018 where is the media watch exaggeration? "The commission’s opponents in the media, like Sky’s Andrew Bolt, have also lined up to admit their error." Media Watch
Abbott assured us the regulators were doing too great a job and were "over-regulating " the banks so he cut ASICs fund a little to the tune of $120 mill and 200 jobs. He did it to the ATO as well taking 3,500 jobs off the payroll and delivering that knowledge to the tax avoidance and minimisation industries which companies supported. What did I say when Bolt is named and shamed he cries, "victim. The use of terms like alleged, and unconvinced were never used into the royal commission into unions, was it?
NINE MURDERED IN TORONTO CAR ATTACK
Some say terrorism, but most think mental illness: Alek Minassian, 25, kills nine people in Toronto with his car and then fakes pulling a gun at police in what seems an attempt to get himself shot.
11m link Yesterday 4 people were murdered by a naked white guy in a waffle shop as I predicted that news missed Bolt's attention as did the recent shootings of two armed black men by police in America recently. Apparently, none are confusing enough for Bolt and his nuanced innuendo suggesting he's not but others are saying it could be "terrorism". Why do I say Bolt's intention is nuanced because he doesn't begin with offering the fact "Minassian is an Armenian name. Most Armenians are Christian." Bolt untilthe very last sentence in his post. However, he gets the message out, doesn't he? Like his argument that practising Christians are the least likely to commit domestic violence. Australian Aborigines are most likely to commit domestic violence. No mention they are in the main Christians and more often than not more practising than White Australians. Bolt's all style and copy don't look for substance or fact. UPDATE "The suspect in a Toronto van attack that killed 10 people and injured 15 others on Monday attended a high school program for students with special needs where he would often walk the halls with his head down and hands tightly clasped, according to former classmates." News
One might ask why Andrew Bolt with all his access to first-hand reports new this and conveniently left it out preferring innuendo over fact. It's the way Bolt ultra conservative spin doctor prefers to roll.Driver 'may have been angry after rebuffed by women'
Toronto van driver identified after 10 people killed, 15 hurt. A report says the driver may have been angry about women.
BULLIES HARASS MILO. CLAIM THEY ARE "DEMOCRATIC"
Who exactly is the "provocateur"? "Conservative writer and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was forced to leave a bar in New York City Saturday after a crowd chanted 'Nazi scum get out.'" So who are these bullies, hounding out a man quietly standing in a pub? "The videos identify the chanting group as members of the Democratic Socialists of America."
"It's astonishing how people acting like bullies actually congratulate themselves on being more moral."Bolt
It's amazing really when Bolt doesn't come out to deliver his tirades on the street he delivers them from behind his media curtain to Zacky, Duncan, Yassmin, Adam flips and calls that democracy. He does it even when street protesters are delivering what Milo wants. Question, does Milo's publicity manager work hard to ensure people turn up for a Milo event? I believe it's so formulaic it's paid for by Milo himself for the publicityto draw a shouting crowdand police to get in on the act. It's called Show Time.The video even looks staged and a bit of performance art by Miloneither a big nor active crowd was it Mr Bolt?
3m When Abbott tells Australians 400 White South African Farmers were murdered in 2017 and doesn't admit that figure was a total fabrication of truth to have then recognized as "refugees" he doesn't deserve to be allowed to say anything. When Abbott refused to support the ALP's policies and then grabbed them for his own showing just how unoriginal he is he shouldn't be allowed to say it. Besides, the EU and even the UK didn't appreciate him saying it. Abbott was doing it for Abbott because that's what he does and has been doing it since he was a student. A squeaky door gets the most attention and News Corp merely amplifies that squeak
Here we have typical Conservative thought avoid the principle and truth at all cost and only speak to the tactics that make the spin difficult. The advice here has nothing to do with Australia and what's been going on for decades but only to do with sides and public perception. Is there any mention of the facts, reality and the numbers of people hurt? Any mention of the early deaths the mental damage done, no? The fact that after the banks were sprung for fraudulent advice in 2014 and Abbott actually cut ASIC's budget to the tune of $120 mill and 200 jobs are ignored. He and Corman kept deregulating cutting Company Tax in doing so. They destroyed the power of the ATO to enforce company tax. Hurt real pain was the emasculation workers rights to unions and the emancipation of companies from paying benefits on casualised labour and not what the public "might " think. Bolt's really clutching at straws waving and drowning.
The third is the way attitudes may shift on the idea that Shorten is too close to the unions...
The fourth danger is the way this debate reshapes views on Shorten’s judgement. The Labor leader pursued a safe and populist campaign by crusading for the commission, but who would say he was wrong?
15m " In Israel and in the United States, activists are using human shields to smash through the borders. And reporters are spinning for them."Bolt
Is this all Bolt can say how long how many days has it taken for Bolt to flip the argument and turn the IDF and it's 100 snipers into the victims necessarily defending themselves from rock throwing teenagers and families protesting with guns trained on them by Hamas activists. When 17 people were killed and 700 injured by live bullets many shot in the back and Bolt calls his editorial, the fact while the majority of MSM media is nothing other than left-wing media spin. One knows total Fake News is being manufactured at News Corp and Bolt imports it from Fox News an organization whose intellectual property is No News.
Bolt asks how much can you believe the world's most reputable journalists and media? Well, a lot actually as much as Australia trusts the ABC in fact given:
1) Israel has stated it will fail to cooperate in any external investigations.
2) The IDF confirmed what had happened on social media and immediately took that confirmation down when they became aware of the world reaction
3) Bolt even unconvincingly suggests Israeli engineering is so pathetic that the protesters that minority that did approach the fence could in any way smash it down?
4) Just how unconvincing is Bolt pointing out his singular and trivial anomalies as reasons for disregarding the majority of media reports. Yet he shows a single case of an armed Palestinian attacking an Israeli not a single case in a peaceful protest that's been occurring yearly for decades."We need to know more" says Bolt even when Israel has publicly stated it will not cooperate.
5) Bolt tells us Israel is only defending its borders. How is it his victims have illegally occupied 17.5% more Palestinian land this year? He's is calling that defending its borders. Bolt is such a liar twisting words with a singular intent deny what has happened. He has to be called out for just that Israel is expanding not shrinking.
6) So where does Bolt actually get his facts from? He hasn't any and is simply calling what occurred the real ones reported by rest of the world as "Fake News". He hasn't any of his own nor does he make any attempt to offer any now that's propaganda and spin.
As for Hondurans passing through Mexico to the US border Bolt hasn't a clue what they intend doing but he wants to somehow associate these events both protests as if they have a common thread, the threat of "invasion". Are the Hondurans armed? Has the media accompanying them less integrity than News Corp? As we have always said Bolt believes in the power of opinion too lazy for facts because they generally don't support his narratives. So single events are selected to make wild generalizations that have the substance of smoke.
These events are both a test and according to Bolt of countries right to defend themselves forgoing any arguments on human rights and International law suggesting that what's occurring on Israel's expanding borders is righteous despite the body count. That the US is entitled to threaten Mexico for allowing people to legally pass through its territory without US permission on the basis that the US is allowed to demand that Mexico should forgo its sovereign rights in the interests of America. Hypocrisy, contradiction speculation, lies ignoring of human rights and murder are facts that should be set aside. Set aside to justify the murder of 17 people and the wounding of hundreds of others women children and totally innocent people expressing their right to be heard by the armies and nations Bolt calls victims.
Among OECD countries, Australia’s population increase in 2016-17 is at the top of the scale compared with Canada, up 0.9 percent over a comparable period, the United States up 0.7 percent and Britain 0.6 percent.
Tony Walker the Vice Chancellor of Latrobe is as thick as a brick and is an active apologist for Tony Abbott whose even thicker.Abbott's only record is his failure to pass bills and get things done.
Land and space don't grow yet Walker seems to think the UK's immigration intake 360,000 Canada' s 300,000 and the US 2.4 million is better than ours because their annual rates are better and we haven't the infrastructure why? 1)Because successive LNP governments spent 20 years doing nothing Tony Abbott blackmailed Victoria into doing nothing withholding $3billion and Turnbull is doing the same and Tony Walker says we need to listen to Abbott?
2) The UK is only the size of Victoria but lets in as many people as we do with 3 times our population already and that's ok because their rate 0.6% and the US our size is 0.7% but lets in over 2 million. Rate comparisons might be valid if we had the same populations but we don't. According to Walker and Abbott, it's not the numbers that count but the rates. The fact is we are a relatively empty country. So is Canada but being like Siberia we are a less hostile environment. So Abbott and Walker are running a statistical smoke screen.
3) Australia is a demographically aging nation. Immigration brings with it small business investment, job creation, a productive youth, labour and skills all the elements and resources needed for building. It doesn't, however, bring with it competent politicians and problem solvers ready to expand and invest. We have plenty of incompetent politicians ready to spend on votes and demanding we fall further behind and divest in people.
4)What we have as a consequence are governments like Howard's and Abbott's who over 20 + years failed to spend money on infrastructure in their battles for votes blackmailing Labour states like Victoria by withholding money for necessary infrastructure projects the states saw fit. The successive failures of these political laggards are now being hidden blaming not just refugees but Immigration as a whole. It's being used as an excuse for their very personal political failures and Tony Walker Vice-Chancellor is simply an Abbott apologist covering up the fact he did nothing for progress.
5)Yes, we have a problem it's one that's allowed real planning, problem-solving and logistics to fall behind and made sterile by politicians like Abbott who don't serve the nation only themselves. Tony Abbott leads like no other in that regard by a country mile. Abbott's NBN, his deployment of the ATO, his time-wasting budget, his lies, his inability to negotiate with his own party, his nope nope nope attitude still lingers on like a bad smell today
( Old Dog Thought ) Decongesting our cities: It all starts with quality planning
"I never had the ambition in my mind that we would become the pre-eminent Sunday morning program. In fact, there is no program on daytime TV in Australia that reaches 500,000 and 600,000 viewers [as Insiders does now], and that's surprised me."
In the 50 years since, he has covered politics for ABC News and current affair programs, worked as a correspondent in Washington and Brussels and, in the 1980s, experienced politics from the inside as senior media adviser to then prime minister Bob Hawke.
In an interview with Backstory editor Natasha Johnson, Cassidy reflected on his career and shared some insights on political reporting and interviewing. Here are some of the highlights:
Is there any wonder Andrew Bolt hides his ratings from the public. He says they are fantastic"OFF A SMALL BASE" . The ABC is TRUSTED
One really hasn't a clue what Bolt is trying to establish here other than New York and London have much the same pop but London seems to be a dangerous city if your Male, Muslim, of African descent or under 30 in February you're more likely to be a victim. Is that the clue? Less likely if Christian and white.
There is little more one can say. However, that's Bolt and his use of statistics he simply doesn't know what to do with them leaving them suitably meaningless. Well done Bolt??? Bolt prefers sweeping generalizations coming from single and unconected events.
All one can say of Bolt in him quoting Kipling's poem IF about the men Kipling was thinking of when he inked his poem they were true Colonial forces of an Inglorious Empire which began with the pillaging of India by the British East India Company and investors and rent-seeking elite that governed the UK and the global slave and indentured labor trade. The true privateers of their time. Paine and Cummings were nothing like them at all.
Not a peep about the Good Friday massacre of Palestinians guess that's a conspiracy theory too or 1400 injured and over 700 by live ammunition fired by IDF snipers some into the backs of people running away or on their knees praying. Nothing about what Passover once meant the Liberation of the Jews from Egypt but as of 2018 the oppression and imprisonment of the Palestinians by the new Israeli Pharo Netanyahu. Bolt's totally silent on the mass shootings by the IDF by 100 snipers. Now that's been denied supported posted and unposted by the IDF on facebook conspiring to reframe the whole event as one of defence.
How is it Bolt can point out Christian deceit but totally ignore the deceit on the part of Israel on Good Friday but then turn to France to tell us just how bad Islam is. This commentator is as strange to watch as a flea in the way it jumps about for food.
Bolt so conveniently forgets how South Africans Pakistanis Indians all have been caught cheating the guilty are in fact the change in the Culture of and the business of Cricket. It began when business took over and systematically turned upper-class Amateurs playing for a team in a gentleman's game into gladiatorial combat of individuals grouped into teams. The 20/20 bash, the IPL is far more representative of the game today than Test cricket is and it's the culture these gladiators are brought up in. Slaves working for the dirty lucre and their billionaire owners with a win at all cost attitude. How are they expected to think like test cricketers of old? The problem is the rules no longer reflect today's venal culture and pretend it's something other than it is. This has been a realty jolt and so do we keep on pretending?
3m9 " Even so, on this evidence, it seems to me that Quantock has a very unhealthy obsession. I worry for him." Bolt Bolt I'm afraid tries to belittle Quantock's very healthy obsession not with Andrew Bolt per se but with News Corp the insidious Murdoch'sNews Free Zone is propaganda corporation that has over the years been a major source of IPA and right-wing influence on our Governments for over 40 years. Andrew Bolt just happens to be a brand synonymous and within the propaganda machine and hardly news product at all. The fact that Sky News and News Corp are oxymorons and we the citizens absorb and are polluted by their sound bytes and fake products much the same as we are subliminal advertising means we need Quantock and those like him to have the healthy obsession with what he does. If Quantock was to comment on Bolt's blog he'd be moderated off any such attempt precluded from any opportunity of free debate. In fact, nobody really finds themselves face to face debating with Bolt. The Bolt Report simply cuts people short when Bolt finds himself floundering out of his depth. James Matheson was a classic example who when he was seen to run Bolt ragged was cut off with a promise to be invited back. He never was.No Bolt Quantock isn't obsessed with you nor am I, however, we are obsessed with fake commentary and ideology presented as reasoned opinion based on facts. Proof Andrew Bolt actually believes he's the centre of attention
